The Lok-Health Newsletter

New Delhi: The AIIMS administration here has set up a committee to

Haryana: Directorate of Medical Education & Research (DMER Haryana) has announced the organization of a camp for the students who have applied for the Post Matric Scholarship.As per the notice,

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare will soon cover a new class of drugs for Alzheimer disease if they receive full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, with some key limits. Along with full approval, drug makers will also have to gather and keep data in a registry showing how the

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A potentially deadly germ has made its way to the U.S. Gulf Coast, health officials warned this week. So far, three cases of infection from the bacteria Burkholderia pseudomallei have been reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria causes melioidosis, which can be

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A former Obama administration official with extensive experience in federal and state health services could be the next leader of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Former North Carolina Health Secretary Mandy Cohen, M.D., M.P.H., is the likely pick, according to sources with knowledge of the

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The DIALIVE novel liver dialysis device seems safe and has a positive impact for patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), according to a study published online May 31 in the Journal of Hepatology. Banwari Agarwal, M.B.B.S., M.D., from the Royal Free Hospital in London, and colleagues examined the

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Use of and access to metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) increased among U.S. youth overall and for most racial and ethnic groups from 2015 to 2021, according to a research letter published online May 30 in JAMA Pediatrics. Sarah E. Messiah, Ph.D., from University of Texas Health Science

FRIDAY, June 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A group of symptoms has been identified that can define postacute sequelae of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection (PASC), according to a study published online May 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Tanayott Thaweethai, Ph.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and

The voice on the phone confirmed "adenocarcinoma," leaving me shocked and disheartened as a non-smoking Asian American woman diagnosed with lung cancer.

New Delhi: In a recent judgment, the Delhi High Court bench denied giving relief to a doctor seeking admission to the DNB Family Medicine course. The bench observed that since the Post Graduate...

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Banjul: Gambia has hired a US law firm to explore legal action after a government-backed investigation found that contaminated medicines from India were "very likely" to have caused the deaths of...